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Workers wear masks as they manufacture shoes at a factory in the town of Xiangtang, Nanchang county in eastern Chinas Jiangxi Province. The ruling Communist Party has told local officials to help reopen factories that were idled by the most intensive anti-disease controls ever imposed. (AP)

All nations scramble for solutions as Made in China' coronavirus...

The saddest part is that mankind is unlikely to have learnt any lessons, as in the past

12 March 2020 1:11 PM IST

Happiness is not the enigma as it has been led to assume. (Photo: Pixabay)

Mystic Mantra - Hand-in-hand: Equal, enlightened, empowered

IWD 2020 is special since it marks the 25th anniversary of the 1995 Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.

7 March 2020 7:14 AM IST

Priti Patel was elected as a Conservative MP for Witham in Essex in 2010 and gained prominence in the then David Cameron-led Tory government as his Indian Diaspora Champion. (Photo: AFP)

Mantri on rampage: Priti Patel is bullying London's top babus

This investigation will look into whether Ms Patel's behaviour in high office transgressed the ministerial code.

7 March 2020 7:09 AM IST

Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Will socialist' Bernie or moderate' Biden be best bet to take on...

Whether Donald Trump will return or not depends on whether voters consider winnability as the most important factor for...

7 March 2020 7:07 AM IST

Senior Indian Police Service officer Param Bir Singh was on Saturday appointed Director General of the Maharashtra Anti-Corruption Bureau. (File Photo)

Thana welcome desks'? End cop-neta nexus

Someone did the maths and figured at any given time, 194 Mumbai constables will be busy smiling and offering water to...

7 March 2020 7:05 AM IST

Taking control of yourself, gaining clarity on what you truly want and need to accomplish, is a calming, inspirational, and transformational experience.

Mystic Mantra: Stay rooted to up your inner calm

This is the foundational touchstone for having faith in oneself and one's own voyage through life.

6 March 2020 2:47 AM IST

My thoughts are with the loved ones of those who have died in Quebec during this heat wave, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Twitter, urging everyone to make sure they protected themselves and their families. (Representational Image)

Can the state of Telangana take on the heat stress this year?

Another set of workers who are particularly affected are around coal mines and thermal power plants.

6 March 2020 2:45 AM IST

At the start of 2019, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea had a total of some 13,865 nuclear weapons, according to estimates in a new report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). (Representational Image)

NPT at 50: Past imperfect, future uncertain

In exchange for countries' pledges not to develop nukes, the US in exchange would hand over its own nuclear weapons.

6 March 2020 2:43 AM IST

Osho says: Awareness means an intensity. Such an intensity of wakefulness that no thought interferes with. You are simply conscious without any thought. Try it. You can try it anywhere.

Mystic Mantra: The inseparable opposites of yin and yang

The day has the active yang energy which melts into the restful yin of darkness. So, the art of living consists in...

5 March 2020 2:05 AM IST

JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman

A culture that bans films is afraid to face the truth

The government's retraction of the permission to screen Zindagi Tamasha gave certain religious elements a greater sense...

5 March 2020 2:02 AM IST

William Shakespeare

When Shakespeare' speaks on Indian politics

Rahul Gandhi has been missing from the anti-CAA protests, I posed. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, he...

5 March 2020 1:58 AM IST

People today are trying to broaden their minds, which may make one socially successful, not truly successful. If you want to be truly successful, you must be able to see everything just the way it is, without distortions.

Mystic Mantra: What decides our success?

It is quite disturbing for me that someone's sickness is a lucrative business, because you would not want everyone to...

4 March 2020 2:40 AM IST